Copy pasta from the All Things #linux Discord. Please contact your MPs if you value your #privacy
An important message.
TL;DR: Check out <https://fightchatcontrol.eu>, contact your government representatives and share it with everyone you know.
The European Union (EU) is close to passing a Chat Control bill which would mandate the scanning of **all** end-to-end encrypted messages. This would mean the government and police can read **everything** you ever send to **anyone** regardless of where you send it and to who.
You can learn more about how to fight against it here: <https://fightchatcontrol.eu> and you can learn more about the bill here: <https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/> and here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUgv6dpJc>
Even if you are not an EU Citizen please share this with your friends and family who may live there, if the EU can pass this it means your country can too, so we must stop chat control laws being passed anywhere to protect not just other's privacy but our own privacy.
If your representative or government supports it **do not give up**, contact them showing your opposition. Enough people fighting will make a change. Share this with everyone you can, friends, family, neighbours. **Our privacy depends on it.**